Missing Crime-Lab Pills Bring Scrutiny of Chemist

Alleged Evidence Tampering Could Affect Thousands of Florida Cases

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said over the weekend it was reviewing thousands of cases handled by one of its chemists after discovering several dozen instances in which prescription pain pills submitted as evidence to the crime lab where he worked had gone missing.

The alleged evidence tampering by the chemist threatens to upend nearly 2,600 cases in 35 counties that the chemist worked on since 2006. It is the most...